Volume: 38 Issue: 12
Contents of History Today, December 1988 |
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The restoration of Sheffield’s famous cutlery industry and the historic Globe works |
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Steven Ellis considers how the new history of early modern Britain is becoming less Anglocentric. |
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Tom Nairn looks at the role of the monarchy and its impact on British national identity. |
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Rex Cathcart tells the tale of the strange Christmas and holiday custom that left teachers two or three hundred years ago risking life and limb. |
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The search for the tomb of Samuel de Champlain, the founder of New France |
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David Lowenthal explores Australian history |
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The background to the recent mini-series on Jack the Ripper. |
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A dream world, or a culture of style that carried within it the seeds of self-destruction? Roy Foster marks the high tide of the 18th-century’s Anglo-Irish elite. |
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Richard Cavendish visits an organisation dedicated to preserving the memory of Oliver Cromwell. |
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Simon Esmonde Cleary considers a little-known anniversary - the death in 388 of an imperial usurper who became a link-man between the factual eclipse of Roman... |
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Running after foreign gods - Richard Stoneman explains how Rome's Syrian rival, the city of Palmyra, and her formidable queen Zenobia influenced the religion and... |
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Alfred the Great was not the only one to be beset by Norseman – Simon Coupland and Janet Nelson re-interpret their impact on the mainland of 9th-century Europe. |